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By spishbin, April 2, 2018 7:18 pm

Salam bar hamegi, Nowruz Mobarak, and welcome to the Spring Quarter!

This quarter the Persian Circle at the University of Chicago has a number of exciting lectures lined up. Please see the current schedule below and take note in your calendars!

– 5th April: Professor Farrokh Asadi (Rush University) presents a screening of Mohammad Reza Aslani’s poetic documentary, “Tehran, a Conceptual Art” (2012) 

– 12th April: Hamid-Reza Rahimi: “A Piece of Time: a Lapse in Poetry, Satire, and Song”

– 19th April: **tbc**

– 26th April: Professor Fatemeh Shams (UPenn), “Dialogues with the Dead: Reading Poetry in Iranian Graveyards”

– 17th May: Inaugural lecture in The Heshmat Moayyad Lecture Series in Persian Literature and Culture: Professor Dick Davis (Ohio State University): “She can’t be kept locked up”: The Forgotten Women of Medieval Persian Poetry*

– 24th May: Dr. Afsaneh Kalantary, *topic tbc*

*This talk will be in English and may take place at a different time/location

Unless otherwise stated, all our talks will be in Persian and take place on Thursdays, from 5pm-6.30pm:

Farouk Mustafa Seminar Room (Pick Hall #218)
5828 S. University Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637 

About us:

The Persian Circle is a weekly lecture series in Persian at the University of Chicago’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The lectures include social, cultural, and academic discussions about the Persian-speaking world and are led by faculty, students, and visiting scholars and artists. The opinions of the speakers are their own. We hope that you enjoy these lectures. And if you would like to volunteer to give a talk, please do get in touch!

Please see our blog and Facebook page to stay up-to-date:
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/persiancircle/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/uchicagopersiancircle/

 Be Omid-e Didar,

Shaahin

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By spishbin, February 6, 2018 5:27 pm

Ba salam,

This week at Persian Circle, the organisers of Persian Movie Nights at the University of Chicago will be screening Hamid Nematollah’s critically-acclaimed 2017 film, “Rag-e Khab” (‘Subdued’), starring Leila Hatami.

You can watch the trailer here.

Synopsis:

Mina is recently divorced from her drug addict husband. With her mother deceased and estranged from her father, she leads an independent life. After finding a job in a restaurant she strikes up a friendship with its attentive manager. She starts having feelings she has never before experienced. These feelings, eventually shared, are shaken when the manager begins to distance himself from her. Thus commences a tumultuous emotional journey.

Address:
Thursday 8th February
5:00-6:30pm
Pick Hall 218
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

Be omid-e didar!

Shaahin, Farinaz, and Nilofar

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By spishbin, January 29, 2018 6:05 pm

Dear all,

Please join us at Persian Circle at the University of Chicago on Thursday 1st February at 5pm, for a talk in Persian entitled:

Racism in Iran: The Roots, the Excuses, and Present Manifestations

نژادپرستی در ایران
ریشه ها، بهانه ها، و جلوه های کنونی

Our speaker is Dr Saeed Yousef from the University of Chicago.

Address:
Thursday 1st February
5:00-6:30pm
Pick Hall 218
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

See you there!
Shaahin

با سلام

:این هفته انجمن سخن فارسی در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند سخنرانی ای به زبان فارسی

:نژادپرستی در ایران
ریشه ها، بهانه ها، و جلوه های کنونی

سخنران ما در این جلسه استاد سعید یوسف از دانشگاه شیکاگو است

پنجشنبه ۱ فوریه ۲۰۱۸
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰

به امید دیدار
شاهین

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By spishbin, January 16, 2018 12:07 pm

Salam bar hamegi,

Please join us on Thursday 18th January at 5pm, for Persian Circle at the University of Chicago, where Farinaz Kavianifar will be giving a talk in Persian entitled:

“The Tradition and Music of the Yarsan”

“سنت و موسيقى يارستان”

Thursday 18th January
5:00-6:30pm
Pick Hall 218
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637

Farinaz Kavianifar is a second-year M.A. student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at the University of Chicago. She is interested in Persian and Arabic Literature, philosophy, and ethnic music and practices. She’s also had first-hand experience learning tanbour from Yarsan masters.

Be omid-e didar,

Shaahin

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By spishbin, January 8, 2018 8:19 am

Dear all,

Happy New Year, and welcome back!

Please join us the first Persian Circle of the quarter, this Thursday 11th January, when we will be fortunate to host Sayeh Eghtesadinia once more. She will give a Persian-language talk entitled:

“War Poetry in Iran”

شعر جنگ در ایران

Thursday 11th January
5:00-6:30pm
Pick Hall 218
5828 S. University Ave
Chicago, IL 60540

Sayeh Eghtesadinia, literary critic, works in the Department of Contemporary Literature in the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. She has published many book and poetry reviews in literary magazines during the past 20 years.   

Be omid-e didar,

Shaahin

با سلام

شعر جنگ در ایران

  سخنران ما در این جلسه دکتر سایه اقتصادی‌نیا است. دکتر اقتصادی‌نیا  منتقد ادبی در فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی است

به امید دیدار

شاهین

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By spishbin, November 7, 2017 10:52 am

Dear all,

This week, Persian Circle at the University of Chicago presents a talk in English:

Dr. Michael Milgrim received his PhD in Ottoman History from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, with a dissertation topic on the war indemnity imposed on the Ottomans following the 1877-78 Russo-Turkish war.  From 1974 to 1978, Dr. Milgrim taught on the faculty of Pahlavi University (now Shiraz University), and then taught Modern Middle East history at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and Rockford College before taking a job as a textbook editor and then as a technical writer at the Appraisal Institute (1986-98), a trade association of real estate appraisers, and from 1999 to 2008 he was technical writer and editor for the International Valuation Standards, published by the International Valuation Standards Council (formerly known as the IVS Committee), an NGO which has long held roster status with the UN Economic and Social Council.

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By spishbin, October 24, 2017 11:48 am

با سلام

این هفته انجمن سخن فارسی در دانشگاه شیکاگو تقدیم می کند سخنرانی ای به زبان فارسی:

“نظام جدید لباس مردان در عهد رضا شاه”
سخنران ما در این جلسه استاد هوشنگ شهابی از دانشگاه بوستون است

پنجشنبه ۲۶ اکتبر ۲۰۱۷
ساعت: ۵:۰۰ تا ۶:۳۰

This week, Persian Circle at the Univeristy of Chicago presents a talk in Persian:

“Reza Shah’s Dress Reforms”
Our speaker is Professor Houchang Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
(https://www.bu.edu/pardeeschool/profile/houchang-e-chehabi/)

Thursday 26 October 2017
5pm-6.30pm
Pick Hall, Room 218
University of Chicago
5828 S. University Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637

Prof. Chehabi will give a second talk, in English, on Friday 27th October at 4:30pm (Saieh Hall, Room 105 58th Street and University) on:

“The Legal Situation of Religious Minorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran”

Abstract: The constitution and the legal codes of the Islamic Republic of Iran differentiate between citizens on the basis of their religious affiliation. In this talk, the evolution of the legal situation of those citizens that are not Twelver Shiites of the official Usuli school is analyzed on the basis of official documents.

We hope to see you there!
Shaahin

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By spishbin, October 17, 2017 12:15 pm

Bā salām,

Friends and colleagues, this week, the University of Chicago’s Persian Circle are very pleased to be hosting author and political fashion blogger Hoda Katebi, who will be giving a talk entitled:

Now Trending: The Politics of Fashion in Tehran
[This talk will be in English]

Thursday 19th October, 5-6.30pm, Pick Hall 218
(5828 S. University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637)

Talk abstract: Fashion is political; it reflects gender norms, production methods, and can map political tensions onto the body. And in Iran, the world of fashion is infinitely more complicated. Through an exploration of the underground fashion scene and the new government-approved modeling agencies in Tehran, we will examine the intimate intersections of fashion, feminism, gender, and the nation in modern-day Iran.

Hoda Katebi is a Chicago-based Muslim-Iranian author, community organizer, and political fashion blogger. Her blog JooJoo Azad (http://www.joojooazad.com/) has been praised from NPR to Teen Vogue and renders fashion political and politics, radical. In 2016 she published the book Tehran Streetstyle, the first-ever in-print collection of streetstyle photography from Iran aimed to challenge both Western Orientalism and domestic Iranian mandatory dress codes. Hoda’s work has been featured across various media outlets internationally. 

Be omīd-e dīdār,

Shaahin